Aulis Kallakorpi

Aulis Kallakorpi
Full name	Aulis Arnold Kallakorpi
nation	Finland
birthday	January 1, 1929
place of birth	Kuusankoski ,  Finland
date of death	May 15, 2005
Place of death	Mikkeli
Career
society	Kuusankosken Urheiluseura
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	4. ( 1953/54 , 1954/55 )

Aulis Arnold Kallakorpi (born January 1, 1929 in Kuusankoski , † May 15, 2005 in Mikkeli ) was a Finnish ski jumper . He jumped for the club in his hometown, the Kuusankosken Urheiluseura.

Kallakorpi belonged to Matti Pietikäinen , Hemmo Silvennoinen and Eino Kirjonen of the Finnish "wonder team" that dominated the 3rd Four Hills Tournament in the winter of 1954/55 . Under coach Lasse Johansson, they had practiced a new style of jumping and no longer jumped with their arms stretched out like the rest of the field, but with their arms pressed against their bodies. In Oberstdorf, Kallaskorpi was level on points with Kirjonen and shared the day's victory with him; he also won the New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In the overall tour, however, he was only third behind Silvennoinen and Kirjonen.

At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , he won the silver medal behind Antti Hyvärinen .

Web links

• Aulis Kallakorpi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Aulis Kallakorpi in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )